Question

The introduction of a book by this thinker outlines a paradox where one can’t determine the ability to know the absolute without defining the absolute. A 1930s Paris lecture series collected as Introduction to the Reading of this thinker was delivered by Alexandre Kojève (“koh-JEV”). This thinker described how a “determinate being” is formed through the process of “sublation.” This philosopher described the recognition and subsequent struggle between a lord and a bondsman in outlining a concept often erroneously (-5[1])summarized using Fichte’s (“FICK-tuh’s”) thesis, antithesis, synthesis scheme. For 10 points, name this German philosopher who developed his dialectic in The Phenomenology of Spirit. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel [accept Hegelian dialectic; accept Introduction to the Reading of Hegel]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Ben KoberleinNotre Dame APurdue A77-5
David MathewPurdue ANotre Dame A10110

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